Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell

The Right Honourable The Lord Gorell PC
"Admiralty Jurisdiction" Barnes as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1893
Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice
In office 1892–1905
Personal details
Born	(1848-05-16)May 16, 1848
Died	April 22, 1913(1913-04-22) (aged 64)
Nationality	British
Spouse	Mary Barnes nee Mitchell
Children	Henry Gorell Barnes
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell (1848-1913), 18 March 1905

John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC (16 May 1848 – 22 April 1913), was a British lawyer and judge.

Biography

Gorell was the eldest son of Henry Barnes, a shipowner of Liverpool, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. where he took his degree in 1868. He began work as a solicitor, but was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1888. He was well known as an expert in Admiralty cases, and in 1892 was made a Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, and its president from 1905 (on the retirement of Sir Francis Jeune (Lord St. Helier)) until 1909. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1905 and in 1909 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gorell, of Brampton in the County of Derby. He died in April 1913, aged 64, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Henry Gorell Barnes.

Family

Lord Gorell married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, in 1881.

References

• De Montmorency, James Edward Geoffrey, John Gorell Barnes, First Lord Gorell (1848-1913), A Memoir , London: John Murray, 1920.
• Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Gorell, John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 298.